Gods and diseases
Subtitle: making sense of our physical and mental wellbeing
By: David Tacey
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780415520621; 9780415520638
Subjects: Religious Psychology; Mental health; Religion and Psychology; Christianity; Psychische Störung; Religion; Spiritual healing; Healing; Spiritualität; Mental Disorders; Gesundheit
Description: Today's society faces many problems that cannot be solved by the application of reason, logic or medicine. Some of these include alcoholism, suicide, drug addiction and child abuse to name but a few. Many mental health problems are on the increase, such as depression, phobias, and anxiety, with no obvious solution in sight. In God and Diseases, David Tracey argues that the answers lie in leaving behind the confines of conventional medicine. Instead we should turn towards spirituality and to what he calls 'meaning-making', to make sense of our physical and mental wellbeing and explore how the numinous may help us to heal. (back cover).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Return of the gods; title: Gods and diseases; title: Suffering of spiritual rebirth; title: Midlife crisis as spiritual interruption; title: Cancer phobia as a doorway to soul; title: Sexuality and the sacred; title: Incest, child abuse and alcoholism; title: Depression, self-harm and suicide; title: Storm gods and the German psychosis; title: Spirituality, medicine, health; title: Numinous as a source of healing.